Quotes from Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Forgiveness brings peace to your heart and wings to your soul.

Weaklings must lie.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present